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Lead Mechanical Engineer (Starship Avionics)

SpaceX· Starship Avionics Engineering
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Lead a team of mechanical engineers within Starship Avionics Mechanical to develop highly producible mechanical designs and packaging solutions that protect electronics in the harsh mechanical and thermal environments of launch vehicle operations for Starship avionics.

Responsibilities

  • Extreme ownership of avionics engineers to enable the rapid progress of design, integration, test, and launch activities
  • Drive conceptual design, architecture trades, and first order sizing
  • Develop design requirements where definition is lacking
  • Optimize the development speed, mass, and cost on our avionics
  • Perform in depth first principles analysis and FEA to assess and optimize designs
  • Incorporate design for manufacturing principles, drive first article builds, and make improvements necessary to hand off subsequent builds to production
  • Support production issues and drive design, process, and procedure improvements for maximum production efficiency and rate after first article build
  • Design and execute development, acceptance, and qualification testing
  • Drive delivery timeline through conception, design, parts, assembly and integration, and launch
  • Work closely with analysts to develop thermal, vibration, and loading requirements and with manufacturing engineers to optimize designs for rapid manufacturability

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or math discipline
  • 3+ years of professional experience designing mechanical components or assemblies

Skills

Required:CAD
Nice to have:Leadership experienceCreative problem solvingFast-paced autonomous work styleMulti-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skillsGD&THand calculationsFinite Element Analyses (FEA)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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